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How robust are unsupervised representation learning methods (e.g. SSL) to distirbution shift compared to supervised learning?

𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: Quite!
𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫: Our paper arxiv.org/pdf/2206.08871.pdf

Joint work with Imant Daunhawer & Amartya Sanyal @amartya

Yuge (Jimmy) Shi

The proof is very much in the pudding: many more details to check out in the paper, including selection of metrics, methods, as well as insights on why unsupervised learning performs well under extreme distribution shift. Check out our paper! (7/n)